Stock Movers

Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- EasyJet shares rise as much as 5.9% to the highest level in a year after the UK budget airline rejected a fourth takeover bid from US investment firm Castlelake at 650p a share, saying the offer is “significantly undervaluing” the carrier.
- Advanced Medical Solutions shares surge as much as 16%, the most in over a year, after HB Fuller made a 285p-a-share cash offer for the UK medical-device maker.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- European semiconductor stocks rally following a blowout earnings report from US-listed memory chipmaker Micron and an upbeat outlook from Qualcomm. Infineon climbed as much as 5.3%
- EasyJet shares rise as much as 5.9% to the highest level in a year after the UK budget airline rejected a fourth takeover bid from US investment firm Castlelake at 650p a share, saying the offer is “significantly undervaluing” the carrier.
- 3i Group shares jump as much as 11%, the most since January, after the investment company revealed like-for-like growth at discount retailer Action, the single largest holding in its portfolio, accelerated over the last six weeks. Analysts said better weather helped demand and believe the acceleration is providing some reassurance.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Micron Technology Inc., the largest US maker of computer memory chips, surged in late trading after its quarterly sales forecast crushed Wall Street estimates, signaling that an AI-fueled growth run remains strong.
- Qualcomm forecast sales of more than $15 billion a year by fiscal 2029 in the booming market for AI components in data centres.
- Anthropic accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. of waging a large-scale effort to “illicitly” access its Claude artificial intelligence model using thousands of fraudulent accounts that undermine the US AI developer’s decision to keep its products out of China. Alibaba shares fell as much as 4.8% in Hong Kong on Thursday following the news.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market, a look at the notable movers:

On this episode of Stock Movers:
- The iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF jumped about 6.3% Wednesday, its sharpest one-day advance since July 2025, as investors rushed into builders expected to benefit from policies aimed at accelerating housing supply and reducing competition from large institutional buyers. The newly approved 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act focuses on one of the root causes of America’s housing affordability crisis: insufficient supply, and is designed to make it easier, faster and cheaper to build homes.

- The meme-stock crowd is rallying behind another beaten up American icon — Wendy’s (WEN) the fast-food chain known for the Frosty, Dave’s Triple burger and the Biggie Deal. The company’s shares, which had been on a steady downward slide for the past three years, surged as much as 42% on Wednesday, triggering a volatility halt, before paring the gain. It was the biggest jump since March 2020, when it joined other stocks in rebounding from the crash caused by the onset of the pandemic.

- Micron Technology (MU) delivered a sales forecast that topped Wall Street estimates after AI-fueled shortages of components sent prices soaring. Revenue will be approximately $50 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, with profit about $31 a share, compared with a projection of $25.31. Micron and its peers have become major beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom, with a spending spree by data center operators stoking the appetite for memory and high-bandwidth memory.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market, a look at the notable movers:

On this episode of Stock Movers:
- The meme-stock crowd is rallying behind another beaten up American icon — Wendy’s (WEN) the fast-food chain known for the Frosty, Dave’s Triple burger and the Biggie Deal. The company’s shares, which had been on a steady downward slide for the past three years, surged as much as 42% on Wednesday, triggering a volatility halt, before paring the gain. It was the biggest jump since March 2020, when it joined other stocks in rebounding from the crash caused by the onset of the pandemic.

-Hertz Global (HTZ) is taking an unusual approach to issuing debt: concurrently serving up shares that are designed to be shorted. The company announced Wednesday that it planned to offer $100 million of stock alongside a $300 million offering of convertible payment-in-kind notes. The shares will be borrowed by JPMorgan Securities, which is one of the stock offering underwriters and also one of the banks arranging the notes. The flurry of announcements sent Hertz shares plunging as much as 33%

- Absci (ABSI) shares jump as much as 46%, the most intraday since 2022, after positive Phase 1 data from the firm’s HEADLINE trial of its experimental drug to treat androgenetic alopecia, a common form of hair loss. The company also reported a $100 million offering which included contributions from Eli Lilly.
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